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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

784: Logging × Blogging × Testing × Freelancing

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this Potluck episode, Scott and Wes tackle listener questions on modern blogging, website environmental impact, and using LangChain with LLMs. They also cover CSS hyphens, unit vs. integration testing, and balancing web development with new parenthood. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:13 How to submit a question for future episodes. Potluck Questions. 02:46 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 03:21 Logging from a site. 08:39 Blogging in 2024. 11:49 Sharing website environmental data. Green Web Foundation. Website Carbon Calculator. Syntax Site Results. Scott’s Site Results. 17:38 Using LangChain when working with LLMs. 21:03 CSS Hyphens and Overflow-Wrap. Hyphens Browser Compatibility. Overflow-Wrap. 25:52 Similarities between WASM, JVM and .NET. 27:25 Writing unit testing and integration testing. 32:00 How can new parents stay current on web development trends? 34:47 Working globally as a freelance developer. 37:26 Scott’s audio setup. Why audio interfaces have DSP built in. ChaseBliss Pedal. 43:04 UI libraries for synth/audio plugins. 44:02 CSS module scripts. CSS Modules in CSS Module Scripts. 48:39 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Scott: Deep Cover Podcast. Wes: Pressure Washer Surface Cleaner. Shameless Plugs Wes: Syntax.fm/videos. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax. We've got a Pollock episode for you today. This is where you bring the questions. We'll bring the answers. We've got some really good questions today on logging, blogging, testing, freelancing, JavaScript, you name it.

0:13.1

If you got a question you like us to answer in a future episode,

0:15.3

go to syntax.

0:16.7

And in the top right, it's not even top,

0:19.8

I always say top right-hand corner.

0:21.5

It's very close to the middle now that button. So hopefully

0:25.0

you can still find it, but it says potluck cue. You click it, bring your mouse on over,

0:30.1

click it and put your question in the box and we will answer it on a future episode.

0:35.0

My name is Wes, I'm a developer from Canada.

0:37.0

How you doing today, Scott?

0:38.0

Hey, I'm doing good.

0:39.5

I got some yard work in, feeling really nice to be outside, you know? I found out that half the things in my front

0:45.8

landscaping were weeds that were just really, there were like a lot of little tree sprouts

0:51.1

and stuff like that. When we moved in to this house, it was clear at some point the previous owners had paid for professional landscaping, right? So the landscaping at one point was very professed, but I do not think the previous owner ever got his hands dirty whatsoever because there's somebody like the trees were every single tree on this property was completely overgrown every shrub everything

1:13.8

it's exact same problem at our house too just like yeah what were they doing the

1:17.6

amount of stuff no maintenance out of here yeah yeah we think this guy had he had probably no handy skills whatsoever because there are so many like

1:26.2

Little maintenance things that he did not do clearly so yeah, no it felt good to clean up that stuff. I spent all day West pulling maybe hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these little, little tiny things out of our garden. Now it's incredible. It looks like I could not even, uh, I have never seen it look this good so

1:44.9

I'm pretty stoked about that we did that as well and then about three days later all the

1:48.5

dandelions started coming through the mulch which is nature's wild. Have you ever seen the like photos of houses in

1:56.2

Detroit that have burned down and then they I've been. Oh yeah you've been to it I

2:02.0

guess I live so close to Detroit for so long I went to a lot of breakdancing battles in

2:06.3

Detroit we spent a lot of time in Detroit and how there's a Danny Brown song

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